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Spring is the season when all animal rescue organizations are inundated with hundreds of unspayed and neutered domestic animals and their offspring who have been abandoned by indifferent owners.  They end up tossed in dumpsters, ditches and cardboard boxes.  They are tied to trees or left wandering the streets attempting to fend for themselves.  They become road kill, die of diseases and malnutrition, revert to feral status, or find their way to a rescue facility.  Unless this facility is no kill, chances are good euthanasia will be the end of their short lives.

For those who care, the task is overwhelming,  The animals must be housed, nourished, madicated and altered, not to mention loved and trained.  All of this work requires time, money and lots of love.  For the foster parent the search for a permanent home for these animals can prove a long and heartbreaking one.  There are more animals than there are good homes to take them in.  In New Hanover County last year, 1522 cats and 887 dogs were euthanized, half of those because they could not find a loving home.

As a caring and enlightened society we cannot allow this to continue.  The solution is simple, spay/neuter your animal.  There are low cost spay/nueter facilities and a number of veterinarians who will work with you on cost.  There is no longer an excuse not to "do the right thing".

In the words of Saint Francis of Assisi: "We are all creatures of God.  If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from his shelter of compassion and pity, you have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man".

Please help reduce the number of unwanted kittens and puppies this year.  Make the appointment to spay or neuter your pet today.

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